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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Paint All The Nails: Secret Santa Edition

Aaa! I am so excited about this post! Let me tell you why. The awesome girls in the Paint All The Nails group that I'm a part of decided to participate in a special Secret Santa exchange (Very Emily was the evil genius behind this all). Instead of doing physical gifts though, we were randomly assigned to another blogger to pay tribute to a special look of theirs! So still a gift of sorts in a very unique way! There has been much anticipation leading up to today. Want to know who I got? My Secret Santa is...

Jae Harrison of The Procrastinating Polishr! I was really happy about this because since I had been inactive on my blog for a few months I wasn't around when she joined the PATN group. This was a perfect opportunity to get to know her blog better and be a casual stalker. Jae comes from the Wonderful Land of Oz, which in my opinion is one of the meccas of great nail polish and fabulous bloggers! I had so much fun going through her Instagram trying to decide which one to recreate. Ah, choices, choices.. to many choices! The one I narrowed in on was her Swirls and Rainbows mani. It really stood out to me and I was so excited to give it a try.

I used a different color palette in my mani because I knew if I tried to match the colors and patterns, I still wouldn't be able to duplicate the same swirls. The thing that ties it all together is a very similar stamping pattern!

Browsing through Jae's manis the thought struck me that she reminds me of me. Does that sound weird for me to say that? Haha. I think we're similar in that we both use a wide range of nail art techniques. I saw stamping, water marble, free hand, and a few other things that I don't even know how it was done! I love the variety and the constant challenge of trying new things.

I have had this mani done for weeks and have been waiting oh so patiently to show it off! I appreciate the bold neons even more now that the temperatures have dropped and the sky is gloomy. The bright colors are like medicine to my eyes!